Christopher R. Johnson

Christopher R. Johnson
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Residence	United States
Citizenship	American
Fields	Computer Science, Medical Imaging, Information Visualization
Institutions	University of Utah
Alma mater	Wright State University University of Utah

Chris R. Johnson (born January 17, 1960 in Kanas City, Kanas) is an American computer scientist. He is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of Utah, and founding director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI). His research interests are in the areas of scientific computing and scientific visualization.

Biography

Johnson received his BS in Physics in 1982 from the Wright State University, and his MS in Physics in 1984, and his PhD in Biophysics in 1989, both from the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City.

From 1985 - 1989, Johnson was an Assistant Professor of Physics at Westminster College (Utah). In 1990, Johnson joined the University of Utah, first as a Research Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute (CVRTI) and has held faculty positions in the Departments of Mathematics, Bioengineering, Physics, and Computer Science. In 1996 he was appointed Associate Professor and Associate Chairman in the Department of Computer Science. In 2003, Johnson was promoted to the rank of Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of Utah and served as the Director of the School of Computing. Johnson served as the Director of the ACCESS Program for Women in Science and Mathematics between 1993-1993 and a member of the ACCESS Faculty until 2003. In 1999 he founded and Directed the Engineering Scholars Program until 2004.

In 1992 Johnson founded the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) research group at the University of Utah, which has since grown to become the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI Institute) employing over 200 faculty, staff, and students. Johnson serves on several international journal editorial boards, as well as on advisory boards to several national and international research centers. In 2013 Professor Johnson was elected to the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association (CRA) and in 2012 Johnson was selected as a member of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee.

Johnson serves on several international journal editorial boards, as well as on advisory boards to several national and international research centers.

Awards

• 1992, Young Investigator's (FIRST) Award from the NIH 1992,
• 1994, the NSF National Young Investigator (NYI) Award
• 1995, the NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow (PFF) award from President Clinton.
• 1996, a DOE Computational Science Award,
• 1997, the Par Excellence Award from the University of Utah Alumni Association and the Presidential Teaching Scholar Award.
• 1999, the Governor's Medal for Science and Technology from Governor Michael Leavitt.
• 2003, the Distinguished Professor Award from the University of Utah.
• 2004, elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
• 2005, was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• 2009, elected a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and received the Utah Cyber Pioneer Award.
• 2010, the Rosenblatt Award from the University of Utah and the IEEE Visualization Career Award.
• 2012, the IEEE IPDPS Charles Babbage Award.
• 2013, the IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award "For outstanding contributions and pioneering work introducing computing, simulation, and visualization into many areas of biomedicine."
• 2014, elected an IEEE Fellow in recognition of his leadership in scientific computing and scientific visualization.

Selected Publications

Books

Articles

Reports

External links

• Christopher Johnson, at University of Utah